Excerpt from The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 2 of 2: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, Master of His Majesty's Stag Hounds
I 85 J. Jardon - vis a term but little ufed in the pre fent improved Rate of mam-m, and but little known, except to the few remaining praflitioners of the old fchool, who are gradually becoming almolt as obfolete as the word itfelf. A jardon was the name given to any callous enlargement on the outfide of either hock, proceeding from blows, or by kicks from other borfes; although they more frequently aril'e from fudden turns or twifis in too ibort a compafs, or being too violently thrown upon their haunches in the manege, or die where. In (light affections, they are not always produé'tive of pain or lamenefs; and if properly.
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